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Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by Humdeee »

kristiandupont wrote: post #41
iamyatin wrote: post #7

And now the old ones will start getting slower with new Mac updates coming in. This somehow happens. Strange.

I am not denying the existence of planned obsolescence but My 2013 Macbook Air lasted almost until now, better durability than any other machine I have ever owned.

Same situation here. My 2015 is still going, and I've put that little guy through the ringer. Awesome laptop. I caved and bought an M1 Air last year and it's just amazing. I seem to have luckily missed the problem years of the Macs in between.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by Tempest1981 »

roywashere wrote: post #32
schroeding wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

European keyboards are often in the ISO layout, think large enter key and additional keys left of it US keyboards have the narrow enter key and different placements for many symbols

Also in France and Germany you have funny stuff such as azerty and QWERTZ. And have you seen Spanish layout? Horrible for software development

';' is moved, to add the 'Ñ' key:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Spanish.svg

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by kijin »

spideymans wrote: post #99
sylens wrote: post #92

Would be the perfect laptop if it could hook up to 2 external monitors instead of just one. For that reason, I have to go for the M2 Pro.

If the M2 Air supported two displays, I’d have no reason whatsoever to buy the expensive MacBook Pro. The M1/M2 Air is already so ridiculously overpowered for my needs. Which is probably why the Air doesn’t support two displays. Sigh.

Genuinely curious: can I hook up the Air with a single ultra-wide monitor that's exactly as large as two regular monitors side by side, or is the screen resolution limited, too? I'm thinking of something like [1], though it will probably make more sense to get a MacBook Pro instead at that kind of price.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/LG-49WL95C-W-49-Inch-Curved-Ultrawide...

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by tenpies »

ricardobayes wrote: post #110

However the cat (inflation) got the laptop, in Europe it's now 1500€ instead of the 1050€ previous gen with same specs. I think it's unjustifiable for a normal consumer.

It's not just inflation, the Euro has been getting crushed as decades of negligence by the ECB show up. That's not stopping any time soon and the ECB looks like it will be in the position to either destroy the Euro or destroy the bond market.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by radiKal07 »

pcarolan wrote: post #145
ricardobayes wrote: post #110

However the cat (inflation) got the laptop, in Europe it's now 1500€ instead of the 1050€ previous gen with same specs. I think it's unjustifiable for a normal consumer.

I disagree. The colorful consumer oriented mac ibook clamshell g3 was USD $1,599 when it came out in 1999. That's $2,800 in today's dollars and it was orders of magnitude less powerful than this Macbook Air. The value per dollar you are getting is simply staggering.

I hope this is supposed to be some kind of joke

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by jclardy »

bluedino wrote: post #129
carlycue wrote: post #39

This thing is going to sell like hotcakes. The combination of single core CPU and graphics performance, device thinness, battery life in this laptop is unmatched. It’s funny how Apple came back from the worst the Mac has ever been to the best in a span of few years. Johnny I’ve doesn’t dictate things around Apple anymore but the silicone chips team now does.

> the worst the Mac has ever been Which one was that?

Butterfly keyboard era. I have one as a work machine that sits around until I need VPN access. The keyboard is miserable, and the fans spin up when I open Slack. In contrast, my 14" M1 Pro is the best laptop I've ever used. Fans are inaudible, incredible performance, incredible keyboard/trackpad, battery is not a worry.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by wombat-man »

pavlov wrote: post #148
bluedino wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the worst the Mac has ever been Which one was that?

The 2016 MacBook Pro was a turd. The butterfly keyboard would inevitably break. I went through several of these laptops. To add insult to the injury, this model's unique innovations were "Touch Bar" and "no ports"... I've been buying Macs since 2000, and the 2016 MBP is definitely the worst Mac I ever had. It was enough to drive me to purchase a Surface Book as an alternative.

I refuse to buy a touchbar mac although some have been issued to me by employers. I remember when they came out they raised the price of the MBP for this "feature" that just kinda sucked.

Ended up leaving my MBP closed 95% of the time and using a separate keyboard.

Re: New MacBook Air with M2

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Post by deepGem »

bluedino wrote: post #129
carlycue wrote: post #39

This thing is going to sell like hotcakes. The combination of single core CPU and graphics performance, device thinness, battery life in this laptop is unmatched. It’s funny how Apple came back from the worst the Mac has ever been to the best in a span of few years. Johnny I’ve doesn’t dictate things around Apple anymore but the silicone chips team now does.

> the worst the Mac has ever been Which one was that?

15”/13” MBPro with the Touch Bar and that horrendous keyboard.
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